Susan's Pendulum

"Bear one another's burdens" really has a lot more to do with forgiving one another's sins than it does with psycho-social...

If you can't have butter, and if you're trying to turn cocoa powder into fudgy brownies, this worked superbly! 13x9" recipe ...

I think those Russian women had it figured out.  They got old and wore their babushkas.  Who would see their thinning hair turning grey?  It...

Pastor pointed out this morning:   In Luke 4, the devil quotes Psalm 91 to Jesus, saying that He can jump off the roof of the temple becaus...

Maggie and I decided to take Gary to Discovery World before our membership runs out.  I love the aquarium there.  Things I noticed: ~ I h...

Three days in a row at home. Oh, it's a beautiful thing! After two and a half months of working extra days every week, we made a tri...

Thawed tilapia.  What to do with it for dinner?  Yowza -- I hit the jackpot with an online recipe .  I used 2# of fish and cooked it in two ...

Moses and Elijah both struggled with doubts.  "I don't want to be doing this, Lord."  "I've had enough of this; these...

Cleaning my room today, I found a note  from an Advent sermon.  I don't know  if it's a quote from somebody famous, or  just ...

This two-minute video has been spreading around Facebook.  I finally watched it.  Maggie caught me crying over it. To direct and defe...

We rarely get enough of what we don't need to make us happy.    (From p. 15 of  A Little Book on Joy   by Matt Harrison.) Littl...

Same ol' long hair pulled back in a ponytail/bun. I like the back! I think the bangs are too short.   (And boy, it's wei...

On those days before Christmas when it was raining, how often did I thankfully say, "At least we don't have to shovel it"? W...

DARE to be Lutheran! Andrew, Philip, and Matthew have a game day.

Do you scan the bookshelves of people you're getting to know?  When you're visiting a friend , do you check out the front of the ...

Zoe quickly became attached to the fireplace.  Three times in a row (Dec 22, 23, 25) when she was here, there was a fire.  When she arrive...

I really like living in LalaLand.  I don't want to notice the degradation of society.  I can't change the world.  So I pretend not t...

And now for something completely different ... I suspect I may be the only one, but I didn't like the movie .  It was definitely an AC...

Gary with his TARDIS mug. Mandy showing off the disappearing/reappearing TARDIS. Dr Who?  Why, Doctor Matt, of course.  Accompan...

Rachel and Alia (early in the day) Zoe borrows an FS hat The fire is captivating! Pirate Paul has a Polly Parrot on his sh...